Bachelor billionaire making moves in the U.S. Last fall his Onexim signed an agreement to buy 45% of the Atlantic Yards development project, a stadium and apartment complex in New York, for $200 million; he will also get an 80% stake in the New Jersey Nets basketball team. Planning to produce a completely new, inexpensive "people's" car for Russia. Able to do so because he cashed out his 25% stake in Norilsk Nickel, the world's largest producer of nickel and palladium in the spring of 2008 before the financial crisis, unloading the holding to fellow billionaire Oleg Deripaska in exchange for cash and a stake in UC Rusal. With fellow billionaire Vladimir Potanin built holding company Interros by winning over the corporate customers of two huge Soviet-era banks in 1992. The group had interests in metals, engineering, agriculture and media. Soon after his highly publicized arrest (and release without charges) in the French ski town of Courchevel in early 2007, he and Potanin announced they were dividing up their holdings in Interros. Recently lost case against billionaire Lily Safra to get back his $53 million down payment on $525 million bid for her French Riveria villa; deal collapsed but Safra kept down payment, promising to donate it to charity. Prokhorov will likely appeal.